ALIENS ATE MY TROUSERS by Hunt Emerson

64 pages paperback 255 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861661329

Crazy comics from the pages of Fortean Times magazine

Paranormal! Supernormal! Not quite normal! All these descriptions have been applied to the work of Hunt Emerson. Alien poodles, giant toenail clippings, spontaneously combusting heads, mysterious rains of frogs, crop circles, UFOs and, of course, trouser-eating extraterrestrials.  

£7.99

CASANOVA’S LAST STAND by Hunt Emerson

64 pages paperback 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861661091

Casanova, the great lover and adventurer, is nearing the end of his life. He vows to make one last great seduction and devises a precarious plan to that end. Needless to say, in the cartoon hands of Hunt Emerson, the whole thing goes disastrously and hilariously wrong. As the narrative unfolds Casanova reflects on his past exploits. Hunt Emerson has dipped into Casanova's memoirs for these 'flashback' sequences - amorous tales that are funny, warm, human and very sexy.

£6.99

CASANOVA’S LAST STAND LIMITED EDITION by Hunt Emerson

64 pages clothbound 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861661091

Signed clothbound 64 page A4 hardcover with Gold Blocked lettering and image on front cover and spine. Limited Edition of 200 copies with bookplate signed and numbered inside front cover. Casanova, the great lover and adventurer, is nearing the end of his life. He vows to make one last great seduction and devises a precarious plan to that end. Needless to say, in the cartoon hands of Hunt Emerson, the whole thing goes disastrously and hilariously wrong. As the narrative unfolds Casanova reflects on his past exploits. Hunt Emerson has dipped into Casanova's memoirs for these 'flashback' sequences - amorous tales that are funny, warm, human and very sexy.

£19.99

CITYMOUTH by Hunt Emerson

48 pages paperback 240 x 165mm | ISBN 9780861661428

Town-planning meets dentistry with hilarious results. Where a photo of Buster Keaton gradually evolves into a giant mouth, where Godzilla is a dentist smashing cities to bits; joined by other mouths, their insides filled with buildings, eventually forming separate civilisations, interconnected by transportation and destroyed by nuclear war. Emerson creates a bizarre world, mirroring our own, yet not attempting to derive any sense or reason from it.  

£3.99

FIRKIN COLLECTION by Hunt Emerson & Tym Manley

144 pages paperback 250 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861661442

Written by Tym Manley and drawn by Hunt Emerson, comic stories about the sex life of the human being as observed by FIRKIN THE CAT. For the past 25 years Firkin has been a regular 2 page cartoon feature in the UK’s best-selling monthly adult magazine Fiesta. Firkin strips have a cult following, currently being published in eight different languages. This book contains colour, two-tone and black and white strips.  

£9.90

LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER by D H Lawrence & Hunt Emerson

56 pages paperback 255 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861660490

The famous novel of life and love in 1920s England re-worked as an hilarious comic book by Britain’s premier humorous cartoonist. Now in its 5th edition. “Funny, profound and passionate by turn” Alan Moore “… simply rips her knickers off…” The Journal of the D.H.Lawrence Society

£7.99

PUSSPUSS by Hunt Emerson

32 page comic 255 x 175mm | ISBN 9780861661206

PussPuss is tough! ruthless! thoroughly unpleasant! In a dog-eat-dog world, he doesn't just survive... he thrives! He bashes and tortures his way through life and mice with a smile on his face and evil in his heart. One and two page strips,  including the absolutely wonderful 9 Lives.  

£1.99

RAPID REFLEXES by Hunt Emerson

80 pages paperback 297 210mm | ISBN 9780861660759

Unique and startling, Rapid Reflexes collects together Hunt Emerson's short comic strips from 1985 to 1989. Includes Cakes and Bricks and the first Citymouth strip. " If you had any doubts about who is England's funniest, strangest, most surreal cartoonist, this will put them to rest. I would prefer to lose myself  in Hunt Emerson's drawings than to watch television" The Independent.

£5.95

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Hunt Emerson

56 pages Hardcover 265 x 195mm | ISBN 9780861660650

The Great narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge rendered into comic strip form byBritain’s greatest underground cartoonist. 200 years after Coleridge wrote his most famous work Hunt Emerson has added humour to the original while keeping all the original words with Coleridge’s added notes. In full painted colour (by Carol Bennett) with an introduction by Mr Gilbert Shelton  “The best production of its kind to date” Times Educational Supplement “Hunt Emerson stands alone” The Comics Journal “I so enjoyed your comic book” Lord Coleridge, descendant of the poet “Manic energy, nightmarish power, dreadful puns” Raymond Briggs

£9.99

THUNDERDOGS by Hunt Emerson

48 page comic 255 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861660988

Major Mongrel and his band of hapless mercenaries, the Thunderdogs battle Professor Zipcrinkle in some of Hunt Emerson’s most imaginative work as he deconstructs the comic book page into multidimensional madness. Hunt's brother Norman says it is his favourite.

£2.50

BOLLAND STRIPS by Brian Bolland

112 pages hardcover 260 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861661503

Now at a Special Sale Price! This collection includes a new 20 page Actress and Bishop story along with their other classic adventures set in a strange suburban idyll. Mr. Mamoulian is Bolland’s alter ego, an observer rather than an actor in life, in a state of constant bemusement at whatever is presented to him. Bolland started his career in the underground with strips in OZ and IT. He drew the definitive Judge Dredd and provided covers for many issues of 2000AD. He was the artist on Camelot 3000 and The Killing Joke. With his gloriously rich and accomplished style he is now the UK’s premier cover artist working for the US market on Animal Man, Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, Tank Girl and many other titles.  

£4.99

DEPRESSO by Brick

264 pages paperback with flaps 220 x 170mm | ISBN 9780861661701

DEPRESSO or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Being Bonkers Our world is plagued by madness. With leaders bent on insane policies and too many citizens locked in crippling depression, normality seems elusive and questionable. Part travelogue, part indictment of mad medicine, ‘Depresso’ is Tom Freeman’s hilarious journey through the vagaries of the system to emerge scathed but content with being ‘bonkers’. The story unfolds over several years, in China and the UK, during which anti-depressants reduce Tom to a zombie and alternative therapies drive him to comic re-examinations of his life, his work and relationships. Throughout the adventured he is shadowed by the White Lizard, a familiar, a conscience, a pain in the arse who helps and hinders Tom’s recovery, and is justly the butt of some wicked humour. ‘Depresso’ is only semi-fictional.   Brick was born in Switzerland of Austrian-Scottish stock and raised on military bases in the Far East and Mediterranean, where comics were the sole source of enlightenment. Educated in the gulag of an English public school, he was destined to devote his life to railing against the system. After stints as a scrapman, roadie, steel erector and bouncer, he stumbled on a talent for satire and taught himself to draw. Best known for his wry political cartoons, Brick has been producing campaigning comics since the 1980s, mostly for pressure groups, trade unions and NGOs like UNICEF and Oxfam. An inveterate escapist, he became a regular contributor of humorous articles to adventure magazines and has two critically acclaimed travel books in his nom de plume, John Stuart Clark. After a couple of mega breakdowns (or maybe breakthroughs), he sought sanctuary in his first love and drew ‘Depresso’ to make himself happy. The book is only vaguely autobiographical.

£12.99

DREAMSPY Illustrations 1973-2003 by Max

144 pages hardcover with dust jacket 270 x 235mm | ISBN 9788478335350

Special Sale Price! While Max has gained wide recognition as a comic artist, his no less important work as an illustrator has gone all but unnoticed. Over and above the cleanness of the composition, the exquisiteness of his line or his unmistakable palette, perhaps the main achievement of Max's illustration is due to his skill as a narrator. Posters, newspapers, magazines, record and CD covers, advertising, limited edition prints, children's books, postcards, bookplates, logos and mascots all stunning. A beautiful full-colour production hardcover with dust jacket.

£8.00

PARIS by Maarten Vande Wiele

216 pages paperback 225 x 165 mm | ISBN 9780861661732

Last season’s lurid comic book spandex has no place in Paris – the most exquisitely dressed graphic novel the world has ever seen, where designer labels and vintage couture play as much of a role in the story as the debauched characters themselves. Full of beautiful people with ugly ideas, Paris is an unhealthy cocktail of Sex & The City and Vogue, with a generous splash of The Valley of the Dolls, and a covert dose of Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters for bite. In this blackest of black comedies, every piece of salacious gossip you’ve heard about the seedy underbelly of fashion, fame, and fortune is dredged up and paraded down the runway with its skirt hitched high for all to see. It’s a critical and hilarious look at a society obsessed with beauty, money, status and power – and a window into the screaming backstage pandemonium you don’t get to see from your expensive front-row seat. Paris is a sordid tale of one city in two parts: I Love Paris and I Hate Paris, each charting the rise and dramatic fall of three fashionistas trying to make it in the cut-throat modelling industry. Faith hopes to make it as a singer, Hope has faith that the disfiguring scar on her once flawless face can be fixed with a strategic ‘do, and Chastity is willing to do literally anything to get her bejewelled fingers on a mountain of cash. If you revel in outrageous tabloid news you’ll recognise glimpses of Lindsey Lohan in taxi paparazzi shots, shades of Amy Winehouse in the on-stage vomit that cascades from the diva’s lipsticked lips, and screams of Anna Nicole Smith in the dead husband’s unaltered will – all topped off with more sex and depravity than Hugh Hefner’s last pool party. Hope, Faith and Chastity categorically fail to live up to their names in their grim desperation to make it big, by banging and blowing their way to the top before smashing (and shaving) their beautiful empty heads on the way down. An increasingly deafening crescendo of style and vice, violence and betrayal, it’s a story so deliberately outré you’ll be watching America’s Next Top Model with a whole new definition of the word “fierce”. Milla Jovovich said that modelling killed her. If it was anything like this it’s little wonder why. Vande Wiele has illustrated a knowingly ridiculous yet loving portrayal of a world he clearly adores, bringing an elegant black line to the page as he pays tribute to the most superficial of the brilliantly superficial. With foil embossed cover. "This is a no holds barred trash graphic novel" The Comics Journal "Don't be glamorised by this graphic novel's skin-deep beauty. What lies beneath its stylish charms gives a fresh and frank satirical twist to the cliche 'fashion victim'" Paul Gravett

£12.00

Pinocchio

192 pages casebound | ISBN 9780861661725

Winshluss’ Pinocchio graphic novel is an adult noir movie that at times is both comedy and tragedy. The narrative begins with a shooting, and then flashes back to Pinocchio’s creation (he is now a robot-like android) and adventures. Collodi’s original story is also darker than Disney’s version. Winshluss has injected politics into his story which also played a part in Collodi’s original. Monstro the whale is replaced by a toxic, giant mutated fish, and there’s even a subplot of a hard-boiled detective woven in. While the "talking cricket" (here a cockroach) has a better fate than that of the original novel, since it is now a homeless man who squats in "the skull" of the little robot in question. Winshluss has perfected the wordless comic. Not a panel is wasted. Each is perfectly designed to for clear reading. The artwork is primarily done in pen and ink, and watercolour but switches to paint for larger splash panels. Many comic lovers and connoisseurs consider Winshluss to be the best comic artist of his generation. Pinocchio was awarded the Fauve d’Or at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême 2009 and best foreign comic book in Germany 2010. Winshluss under his real name, Vincent Paronnaud, co-directed the animated feature Persepolis with Marjane Satrapi. The film got the Special Jury Prize in 2007 from the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated in 2008 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe. They are currently teaming up again to adapt Satrapi’s 2006 book Chicken with Plums, also a true story of life in Iran. “I can't begin to say how far from the film - and indeed the source novel - this gets. And nor would I wish to - the unexpurgated wackiness of this telling has to be read to be believed” The Bookbag “A gorgeous and inventive piece of storytelling genius, Pinocchio takes on a life of its own and becomes considerably more than the sum of the fairy tales Winshluss pilfers and scribbles. Easily one of the best graphic novels I've read in fifteen years” Alan Hindle - Snipe.at

£19.99

SEVEN DEADLY SINS

64 pages paperback 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861660629

Cartoonists interpret the classic sins, including Sloth by Neil Gaiman and Bryan Talbot, Gluttony by Dave Gibbons and Lew Stringer, Lust by Alan Moore and Mike Matthews and Envy by Tym Manley and Hunt Emerson.

£5.50

THE CELESTIAL BIBENDUM by Nicolas de Crécy

200 pages hardcover 320 x 245 mm | ISBN 9780861661756

For the first time in full, Nicolas de Crécy’s masterpiece. De Crécy’s comics are mysterious concoctions where anthropomorphic animals interact with humans, mixing fantasy, absurd humour and realism with breathtaking classically styled illustration. Charming images and moments combine with shocking frightening scenes. You never know with De Crécy what turn a story will take. Le Bibendum Celeste is the story of Diego, a seal, living in a city in Europe getting about on one shoe and a pair of crutches, who sails to a fantasy city New York-sur-Loire, a grim and polluted port, where he becomes a darling of the intelligentsia and embarks on a course of higher learning. Soon he comes to the attention of mysterious higher powers (including the President and Satan) who embark on his destruction. The Devil is everywhere in New York-sur-Loire, and as the author says, the devil is serious!  Diego is a candidate against his will in the race for the Nobel Prize of Love. “A meaningful cross between Lewis Carroll and Alfred Jarry" Over large format luxury hardcover

£24.99

THE PLAYWRIGHT by Daren White & Eddie Campbell

164 pages Landscape Hardcover 235 x 145mm | ISBN 9780861661671

A dark comedy about the sex life of a celibate middle-aged man

The Playwright rather enjoys a quiet moment in the local park. It is a good place to mentally sort his ideas, and is often frequented by pretty young ladies. He once saw a pigeon defecate onto a businessman's shoulder. It struck him as absurd that such an event is often considered lucky. Surely the luck lies with passers-by who, statistically, are far less likely to be similarly soiled at that precise moment. Similarly, the Playwright has always derived an almost perverse sense of relief upon receiving news that an old friend has developed prostate cancer. Because statistically, he reasons, such news significantly reduces the chances of him being similarly afflicted. And to be honest, at his age, his prostate needs all the statistical support he can muster... Praise for Eddie Campbell (Alec, From Hell): "No one else in the medium combines emotional truth, literary intelligence, and formal daring with such adroitness and elegance." -–Booklist "Campbell is one of the premier cartoonists of his generation." --PublishersWeekly 'There's no artist working in comics today whose body of work I admire more than Eddie Campbell's." --Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter

£9.99

TIME TWISTED TALES by Dave Sheridan

32 pages comic 255 x 178mm | ISBN 0

Three stories by fantastic psychedelic  illustrator and storyteller, the late Dave Sheridan. Full of  anachronisms and humour, Time Twisted Tales mixes up 'Camelot' with a time traveller and magician John Doe. 3771 is a futuristic satire on our own times. More Time Twisted Tales is just daft and glorious. Published by Rip Off Press

£1.99

YESTERDAY’S TOMORROWS by Rian Hughes

256 pages hardcover 265 x 195mm | ISBN 9780861661541

Now at a Special Sale Price! An eclectic, enthralling collection of comics by Rian Hughes, master illustrator and designer, the man who has done more for comic book design than anyone else. Contents include his collaboration with Grant Morrison on the classic British character, Dan Dare, a post-modern masterpiece which sets an ageing, retired Dare in the economically depressed 1980s. Versatile and unpredictable, Hughes makes full use of his retro style in his Science Service co-written with John Freeman and in his adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Goldfish, (with writer Tom DeHaven), he adopts a moody 2-colour palette to capture the noir feel.  The book is rounded out with another Morrison story, Really & Truly, a madcap road-trip from the pages of 2000AD magazine, as well as a number of sketchbook pages. Published in a luxury embossed casebound edition, the book features an introduction by comics guru Paul Gravett.

£15.00

FAT FREDDY’S COMICS & STORIES No. 1 by Gilbert Shelton

32 pages comic 255 x 175mm | ISBN 9780861660117

A collection of classic comic genre stories, Horror, SF, Barbarian, Romance and War starring Fat Freddy all cleverly linked by writer Gilbert Shelton and drawn by underground luminaries including Spain, Jack Jackson. S. Clay Wilson, Ted Richards and Shelton himself. Also featuring Fat Freddy’s Cat.  

£1.99

NOT QUITE DEAD No. 2 by Gilbert Shelton & Pic

32 pages comic 255 x 175mm | ISBN 9780861661138

  Gilbert Shelton, (The fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog) invented new characters in the 1990s, Not Quite Dead, the world's oldest and least successful Rock 'n' Roll band. If you add their combined ages they are almost 600 years old and have never even made a demo disk. They're a band for all purposes: club gigs, concerts, dances, birthday parties, biker picnics, bar mitzvahs, parades and funerals. They can play just about any style you might request, be it top forty, pop, variety, honky tonk, rock, blues, boogie, soul, disco, motown, doowop, hiphop, techno, hardcore, heavy metal, rap, reggae, skiffle, ska, salsa, tex-mex, cajun, zydeco, rockabilly, psychobilly, psychedelic, acid, grunge, funk, trash or noise, Thye can even do a polka if you pay them enough. The comics consist of long strips and single page stories.   Shelton's usual wonderful grasp of satire and humour is ably assisted with the artwork by French cartoonist Pic.  

£1.99

NOT QUITE DEAD No. 3 by Gilbert Shelton & Pic

32 pages comic 255 x 175mm | ISBN 9780861661275

  Gilbert Shelton, (The fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog) invented new characters in the 1990s, Not Quite Dead, the world's oldest and least successful Rock 'n' Roll band. If you add their combined ages they are almost 600 years old and have never even made a demo disk. They're a band for all purposes: club gigs, concerts, dances, birthday parties, biker picnics, bar mitzvahs, parades and funerals. They can play just about any style you might request, be it top forty, pop, variety, honkytonk, rock, blues, boogie, soul, disco, motown, doowop, hip-hop, techno, hardcore, heavy metal, rap, reggae, skiffle, ska, salsa, tex-mex, cajun, zydeco, rockabilly, psychobilly, psychedelic, acid, grunge, funk, trash or noise, They can even do a polka if you pay them enough. The comics consist of long strips and single page stories.   Shelton's usual wonderful grasp of satire and humour is ably assisted with the artwork by French cartoonist Pic.  

£2.50

NOT QUITE DEAD No. 4 by Gilbert Shelton & Pic

32 pages comic 255 x 175mm | ISBN 9780861661374

Gilbert Shelton, (The fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog) invented new characters in the 1990s, Not Quite Dead, the world's oldest and least successful Rock 'n' Roll band. If you add their combined ages they are almost 600 years old and have never even made a demo disk. They're a band for all purposes: club gigs, concerts, dances, birthday parties, biker picnics, bar mitzvahs, parades and funerals. They can play just about any style you might request, be it top forty, pop, variety, honkytonk, rock, blues, boogie, soul, disco, motown, doowop, hip-hop, techno, hardcore, heavy metal, rap, reggae, skiffle, ska, salsa, tex-mex, cajun, zydeco, rockabilly, psychobilly, psychedelic, acid, grunge, funk, trash or noise, They can even do a polka if you pay them enough. The comics consist of long strips and single page stories. Shelton's usual wonderful grasp of satire and humour is ably assisted with the artwork by French cartoonist Pic.

£2.50

NOT QUITE DEAD No. 5 by Gilbert Shelton & Pic

32 pages comic 255 x 172mm | ISBN 9780861661527

  The first issue to be all in colour! Gilbert Shelton, (The fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog) invented new characters in the 1990s, Not Quite Dead, the world's oldest and least successful Rock 'n' Roll band. If you add their combined ages they are almost 600 years old and have never even made a demo disk. They're a band for all purposes: club gigs, concerts, dances, birthday parties, biker picnics, bar mitzvahs, parades and funerals. They can play just about any style you might request, be it top forty, pop, variety, honky tonk, rock, blues, boogie, soul, disco, motown, doowop, hiphop, techno, hardcore, heavy metal, rap, reggae, skiffle, ska, salsa, tex-mex, cajun, zydeco, rockabilly, psychobilly, psychedelic, acid, grunge, funk, trash or noise, Thye can even do a polka if you pay them enough. The comics consist of long strips and single page stories.   Shelton's usual wonderful grasp of satire and humour is ably assisted with the artwork by French cartoonist Pic.

£2.99

NOT QUITE DEAD No. 6 by Gilbert Shelton & Pic

48 pages paperback with flaps 265 x 185mm | ISBN 978086166164

Last Gig in Shnagrlig (an anagram of Shangri-La). A splendid satire on fundamental religion and Western Imperialism, starring a Cadillac, paper bags and the world’s least successful rock band. It’s every band’s dream: an international concert tour! A chance to spearhead Freedom, Democracy and the American Way of Life among the benighted peoples of the world, through the medium of massively amplified Rock ‘n’ Roll music! How was Not Quite Dead able to get such an opportunity? You might say it was pure luck, although not necessarily of the good sort... The Secret Spy Service wants to send a cultural delegation to foment disruption in the poorest country in the world and allow the US government to send in the military to restore peace.

£6.99

PHILBERT DESANEX’ 100,000th DREAM by Gilbert Shelton

48 pages comic 250 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861660599

Philbert Desanex (alter-ego of Shelton’s favourite character Wonder Warthog) is the anti-hero of this prophetic adventure, arrested and imprisoned in many countries for bureaucratic convenience, until suddenly he gets Charisma! Autogyros, the Panama Canal, pirates, communism and consumerism are all part of Philbert’s 20th century nightmare.

£1.50

THE FAT FREDDY’S CAT OMNIBUS by Gilbert Shelton

368 pages paperback with flaps 255 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861661619

THE FUNNIEST CAT IN COMICS IN ONE BIG BOOK  368 Pages of strips and illustrations

Fat Freddy's Cat began life as a footnote strip to the Freak Brothers and later appeared in many comics of his own. He is often to be found sleeping on the unfortunate Fat Freddy’s head.  His constant battles with the never ending army of roaches out for world domination drive him to distraction, as does Fat Freddy's never-ending failure to feed him or empty his kitty litter box.  As a result of this, his main hobbies seem to be shredding Fat Freddy’s water bed and any other items he can sink his claws into, and finding places to leave surprise poop packages for Freddy to discover. This cat has variously gone travelling to Mexico, saved the world from alien invasion, and worked as a government agent in Washington trying to save the world from the “hee hee hee” drug.  He has 3 nephews of unknown origin. He tends to regard the Freak Brothers with a fair bit of contempt, but despite the odd separation he always seems to hook back up with his inept roomies.

£17.99

THE FREAK BROTHERS OMNIBUS by Gilbert Shelton

624 Pages Paperback with flaps 25 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861661596

At 624 pages, 200 in colour, this is the definitive collection of The Freak Brothers  The definitive underground comic strips. Published in 15 languages and with worldwide sales of over 40 million copies along with countless items of merchandise. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are timeless clowns; it’s the traditional, simple, basic forms of humour at the heart of these tripped-out cartoons – from slapstick to silly punchlines and Shelton’s mastery of satire– which have kept them fresh and mirthful for 40 years.

£24.99

A PATCH OF DREAMS by Hideji Oda

192 pages paperback 240 x 170mm | ISBN 9788496427235

Renei thinks she is going crazy. After many years she has begun to dream about "Ku's World" all the time, a place beneath the shadow of Mount Babiranma which is inhabited by fantastic creatures - Nagizari, God, the little Rey and the lethal teppas. This is where her dead brother may be as well as her best friend ( who committed suicide some time ago). A wonderful fantasy book.

£12.99

A ZOO IN WINTER by Jiro Taniguchi

232 pages hardcover 245 x 175mm | ISBN 9781908007049

  The Pleasure of Drawing. Kyoto,1966. The young Hamaguchi is working for a textile manufacturer whilst dreaming of becoming an artist, when an incident at the zoo involving the boss's daughter forces his hand. He moves to Tokyo at the invitation of an old school friend who also arranges an "interview" at the studios of the famous mangaka, Shiro Kondo. Here he quickly discovers both the long hours of meeting studio deadlines along with the nightlife and artistic haunts of the capital.   For the first time ever, multi-award winning Taniguchi recalls his beginnings in manga and his youth spent in Tokyo in the 60's. It is a magnificent account of his apprenticeship where all the finesse and elegance of the creator are united to illustrate those first emotions of adulthood.

£12.99

DISAPPEARANCE DIARY by Hideo Azuma

200 pages 210 x 150mm | ISBN 9788496427426

Throughout the 70's and 80's Hideo Azuma produced a large body of work in many genres including the comedies FUTARI TO GONIN and YAKEKUSO TENSHI and the award-winning FUJOURI NIKI. But the pressures of work told and, in 1989, he ran away from his responsibilities and went homeless. After this experience and his eventual return to normal life, he then repeated the cycle in 1992, this time becoming a gas pipe layer in another town. Later, in 1998, his alcoholism was so bad that he was forced into rehab. This book is his expression of those three periods of his life told, not in a deep or depressed way but, as befits his nature, in a buoyant and cheerful cartoon art style. Disappearance Diary was awarded the Grand Prize from the 9th Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Division and the Excellence Prize at the 34th Japan Cartoonists Association Awards.

£11.99

DOING TIME by Kazuichi Hanawa

240 pages paperback with flaps 240 x 170mm | ISBN 0788493340902

For the first time ever! Take a look behind the scenes of a comic which shows what life in jail is really like. Up to now Kazuichi Hanawa expressed himself through works of fiction. The fantastic world of tales from the Middle Ages were his favourite setting. A twist of fate caused him to be locked away for three years in jail, which is a very real place. There too this genius conjured up descriptions of his amusement and loneliness through his works. And that is how this exceptional record of life in prison was achieved.

£12.99

FARM 54 by Galit & Gilad Seliktar

136 pages hardcover 260 x 190mm | ISBN 9781908007001

  This unique graphic novel weaves together three semi-autobiographical stories from the childhood and puberty, as well as early adulthood and military service years of Noga, its female protagonist. The stories take place in Israel's rural periphery in the 1970's and 1980's. They capture the disturbing underground dimensions of adolescence, and the dangers and traumas that subvert the superficial tranquillity of the countryside. While these Israeli childhood stories take place in the shadow of war and occupation, they also reveal universal feelings, passions and experiences. Great 2 colour art.   Farm 54 was created as a collaboration between poet Galit Seliktar and her brother, illustrator Gilad Seliktar. It was first published in France and was nominated for the Angouleme 2009 Book Award. Printed on beautiful cream wove paper.

£13.99

JAPAN AS VIEWED BY 17 CREATORS

256 pages paperback 240 170mm | ISBN 9788496427167

A cultural exchange between France and Japan. A stay in Japan does not leave one indifferent.. nine stories from European authors result, in which all the exoticism of this elusive and mysterious country is depicted with imagination, humour and poetry. As if in response to these impressions of the artist-travellers, eight authors from the archipelago portray their Japan, the everyday one, that of modernity and that of legend. After reading this collection of anecdotes and tales woven together from such different views, one desires nothing more than to visit and see for oneself some bit of the Land of the Rising Sun. Creators include such stars of comics as Kan Takahama, Benôit Peeters, Jiro Taniguchi, Frederic Boilet, Aurelia Aurita and Nicolas de Crécy.

£13.99

KINDERBOOK by Kan Takahama

204 pages paperback with flaps 210 x 150mm | ISBN 9788493309398

Very clever, very subtle - even when her words are very direct, Kan Takahama tackles subjects as diverse as suicide pacts, mermaids, making a porno film and bar room chat with a robust yet delicate grace. Probably the most talented mangaka to have recently emerged from Japan, her art and storytelling will surprise when least expected.

£9.99

KOREA AS VIEWED BY 12 CREATORS

224 pages paperback with flaps 240 x 170mm | ISBN 9788496427488

Twelve insightful short graphic stories into the "Hermit Kingdom", six by European and six by indigenous creators, including award-winning Park Heung-yong and "Best Manga 2006" artist Vanyda.

£11.99

MARIKO PARADE by Boilet & Takahama

196 pages paperback with flaps 240 x 170mm | ISBN 978849334091

A poignant often droll tale from two of the most exciting creators in the medium today, Frederic Boilet (Yukiko's Spinach) and Kan Takahama (Kinderbook). A love story and a personal diary... It's the rainy season and the hydrangeas are in full bloom. He knew she would leave soon.... Part colour part black and white with explicit sex scenes

£10.99

MY MOMMY IS IN AMERICA by Jean Regnaud & Emile Bravo

120 pages hardcover 250 x 175mm | ISBN 9788496427853

  Jean is an adorable 5 year old boy who lives happily with his busy daddy, combatant younger brother and kind nanny. So why is there this pervasive emptiness inside? Then he begins to receive fanciful postcards from his absent mommy...With sensitivity and emotion, but never lapsing into melodrama, Regnaud and Bravo tell their story and remind us that children are not the only ones who would rather invent than deal with reality.   Essentials Award winner at the 35th Angouleme Festival, France, 2008.   Tam Tam Literary Award 2008 from Salon du Livres de la Presse Jeunesse.

£13.99

THE BUILDING OPPOSITE by Vanyda

168 pages paperback 240 x 170mm | ISBN 9788493399283

Best Manga 2006 Publishers Weekly.  A pregnant single mother lives on the second floor of the Building Opposite. A middle-aged couple live on the third floor and on the fourth are two young lovers, Claire and Louis. A building like so many others, where people cross on the stairs, are good neighbours and each have their own little stories, romantic or painful.

£9.99

THE ICE WANDERER AND OTHER STORIES by Jiro Taniguchi

248 pages paperback with flaps 210 x 150mm | ISBN 9788496427334

Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old hunter who divulges a strange legend to them....Surrounded by wolves and fighting for their survival two explorers head for Alaska to bury their companion.... A marine biologist begins a quest to find the mythical graveyard of whales. In total six shorts with as many stories of men confronted by savage nature which is sometimes cruel, sometimes forgiving but always vast thought tales filled with respect for animal life, this splendid collection which lies at the crossroads of poetry and adventure, shows master story-imager Taniguchi at his award-winning best.

£11.99

THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING GIRL by Jiro Taniguchi

336 pages paperback with flaps 210 x 150mm | ISBN 9788496427471

The Mountains are unforgiving but the City is treacherous! Shiga comes down from his Mountain refuge to look for his missing 'niece', Megumi, but all he finds is trouble! Multi-award winning creator, Jiro Taniguchi, builds the tension to a massive climax in this exciting drama.

£13.99

THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS vol 1 by Jiro Taniguchi

336 pages paperback with flaps 210 x 150mm | ISBN 9788496427877

  "Because It's There" Words attributed to George Mallory ahead of his attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1924. An expedition from which he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, never returned. Almost 70 years later in 1993, with Mallory's body still undiscovered on the mountain, a Japanese expedition photographer stumbles across a 1920's Kodak camera in a Kathmandu bazaar which sparks a whole series of questions with few answers. The Summit of the Gods is an epic story of man and his personal conquests against his own limitations. No mountain is too high, no peak too distant in his pursuit of this passion for achievement. But Taniguchi's realistic art and Yumemakura Baku's tireless script will take you to such heights that mountaineers only dream about.   Winner Best Art Award at the Angouleme Festival France 2005.   Ignatz Award Nominee for 'Outstanding Graphic Novel' at SPX 2010   George Mallory's body is discovered on Everest's North Face minus his Kodak in 1999

£14.99

THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS vol 2 by Jiro Taniguchi

336 pages paperback with flaps 210 x 150mm | ISBN 9788492444328

  With what may be Mallory's camera found and lost photographer Fukamachi delves deeper into the life of the mysterious character Bikha Sanp - the 'Venomous Snake' - convinced that he is, in reality, the legendary mountaineer Jouji Habu. The more he digs the more he reveals of the lives of both Habu and his constant nemesis Tsuneo Hase as they each struggle against their own limitations and the preceived achievements of the other. It is a tale of obsession to succeed, to be the first - always. But as he penetrates the darkness of these men's psyches he finds himself being laid bare and bound to the mountain in this raw human drama.   Winner Best Art Award at the Angouleme Festival France 2005.   Ignatz Award Nominee for 'Outstanding Graphic Novel' at SPX 2010   George Mallory's body is discovered on Everest's North Face minus his Kodak in 1999

£14.99

TOKYO IS MY GARDEN by Boilet & Peeters

152 pages paperback 240 x 170mm | ISBN 9788496427075

David Martin is sent to Japan as the sales representative for Herault Cognac of France. However, he spent the last few months discovering Japanese culture and the nightlife of Tokyo. Then his boss announces an imminent visit to check up on his progress. He must turn the situation around quickly or risk losing his job, his visa and the woman he loves.

£9.99

YEARS OF THE ELEPHANT by Willy Linthout

164 pages paperback with flaps 240 x 170mm | ISBN 9788492444304

Charles is a man in his late fifties, married to Simone, with a regular job and his only child, Jack, is the apple of his eye. Then one day the police come to the door with terrible news - Jack has killed himself by jumping off a roof. A surreal and touching graphic memoir about the emotional void and confusion created for a father when his son commits suicide. The story is autobiographical and the main character is in fact Linthout himself, who draws an almost tangible pain with his immediate, rudimentary art and strong script combined with personal experience.   Flemish Community Cultural Award 2008   Dutch Stripschapspenning Award for "Best Literary Graphic Novel" 2007

£11.99

YUKIKO’S SPINACH

148 pages paperback with flaps 240 x 170mm | ISBN 9788493309343

The first English language edition of the book that started the Nouvelle Manga movement. Boilet's carefully observed love story of an artist and model is done in a very original style and contains some explicit sex. "Yukiko in the hands of Boilet is the most beautiful girl in the world, beautiful like Anna Karina through Godard's eyes, beautiful like Maggie Cheung closely examined by Assayas.. Frederic Boilet is an intimist, drawing the tenderness, the emotional tie, the loving relationship with a subjective camera, the fleeting moment when one finally grasps it." Liberation

£9.99

A Disease of Language

160 pages paperback with flaps | ISBN 9780861661718

Originally a performance piece by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins, The Birth Caul, adapted as a comic by Eddie Campbell, is a shamanism of childhood, a journey from the present to the past, back into the womb and beyond. The magical creation theory story of love, death and resurrection Snakes and Ladders was also a performance, entwining the disinterment of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Siddell (to retrieve Rossetti’s poems), the visionary nature of Arthur Machen’s experiences after the death of his wife and Alan Moore’s magical traveller John Constantine. In Eddie Campbell’s self published magazine, Egomania, he interviewed Alan Moore at length to produce (probably) the most informative and fascinating insights into the creative process and Alan’s study of magical realities.

£11.99

DODGEM LOGIC #1 by Alan Moore & Co.

48 pages magazine + CD. 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861661640

DODGEM LOGIC: Colliding ideas to see what happens. Forty years after the heyday of the alternative press, writer Alan Moore is launching the 21st century's first underground magazine from his home town of Northampton, a community that is right at the geographical, political and economic heart of the country; one which has half its high street boarded up and is at present dying on its arse, just like everywhere else. Dodgem Logic sets out to provide a splash of subterranean exotica in a bleached-out cultural and social landscape. Regular columnists provide delicious, inexpensive recipes, wide-ranging medical advice, simple instructions for creating stylish clothing and accessories from next to nothing, guides to growing your own dinner by becoming a guerrilla gardener, and, in the first of Dave (The Self-Sufficient-ish Bible) Hamilton's environmental columns, a bold experiment in living with no money. Not only seeking to give practical advice on getting through a rough stretch, Dodgem Logic is also committed to brightening the world with the astonishing cartoon-work of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Kevin O'Neill or that of underground legend Savage Pencil; the musings of Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Book's own Graham Linehan or of the nation's sweetheart, the implacably positive Josie Long. In addition to a variously-hosted women's column launched by Lost Girls co-creator and underground cartoon artist Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore will himself be contributing a lead feature on the history of underground subversive publishing from its origins in the thirteenth century. 48 pages + 8 page local insert all in full psychedelic colour and a free CD of a history of Northampton Music.

£2.50

DODGEM LOGIC #1 signed by Alan Moore

48 Page magazine with CD 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861661640

SIGNED & NUMBERED copies of DODGEM LOGIC #1 for collectors. Alan Moore has signed 1,000 of the magazines in gold ink on the front cover and they are numbered in the bottom right hand corner. Colliding ideas to see what happens. Forty years after the heyday of the alternative press, writer Alan Moore is launching the 21st century's first underground magazine from his home town of Northampton, a community that is right at the geographical, political and economic heart of the country; one which has half its high street boarded up and is at present dying on its arse, just like everywhere else. Dodgem Logic sets out to provide a splash of subterranean exotica in a bleached-out cultural and social landscape. Regular columnists provide delicious, inexpensive recipes, wide-ranging medical advice, simple instructions for creating stylish clothing and accessories from next to nothing, guides to growing your own dinner by becoming a guerrilla gardener, and, in the first of Dave (The Self-Sufficient-ish Bible) Hamilton's environmental columns, a bold experiment in living with no money. Not only seeking to give practical advice on getting through a rough stretch, Dodgem Logic is also committed to brightening the world with the astonishing cartoon-work of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Kevin O'Neill or that of underground legend Savage Pencil; the musings of Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Book's own Graham Linehan or of the nation's sweetheart, the implacably positive Josie Long. In addition to a variously-hosted women's column launched by Lost Girls co-creator and underground cartoon artist Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore will himself be contributing a lead feature on the history of underground subversive publishing from its origins in the thirteenth century. 48 pages + 8 page local insert all in full psychedelic colour and a free CD.

£20.00

DODGEM LOGIC #2 by Alan Moore & Co. (Cover 1)

48 page magazine with 8-page comic insert. 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861661664

DODGEM LOGIC  We’ll show you The Life of the Mind Welcome to issue #2. We’ve got beautiful girls and strange old men ranting from soapboxes. We’ve got a freak show of Northampton curiosities. We’ve got FeeJee mermaids and the end of civilization. Right behind these lurid painted curtains, decorated by the best damn deadbeat paraffin-swigging Carny embellishers in the business. We’ve even got a free dirty comic book that we will be handing out behind the main tent after the performance. That’s how much we love you.  Dodgem Logic – touching hearts and minds, inappropriately.   Comic strips by Steve Aylett, Savage Pencil, Kevin O’Neill and a free insert full colour 8 page A5 comic book ‘Weird Penises’ by Alan Moore - the first comic Alan Moore has written and drawn for himself for over 20 years. Gardening, Cookery, DIY clothes, Women’s page. Contributions from Steve Moore, Dave Hamilton. The Daily Mustard. Spinning Doctors. Alan Moore on Anarchy.  3 different covers by Mitch Jenkins and Burlesque. 48 pages + 8 page local insert  and an 8 page comic insert .

£2.50

DODGEM LOGIC #2 by Alan Moore & Co. (Cover 2)

48 page magazine with 8-page comic insert. 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861661664

DODGEM LOGIC  We’ll show you The Life of the Mind Welcome to issue #2. We’ve got beautiful girls and strange old men ranting from soapboxes. We’ve got a freak show of Northampton curiosities. We’ve got FeeJee mermaids and the end of civilization. Right behind these lurid painted curtains, decorated by the best damn deadbeat paraffin-swigging Carny embellishers in the business. We’ve even got a free dirty comic book that we will be handing out behind the main tent after the performance. That’s how much we love you.  Dodgem Logic – touching hearts and minds, inappropriately. Comic strips by Steve Aylett, Savage Pencil, Kevin O’Neill and a free insert full colour 8 page A5 comic book ‘Weird Penises’ by Alan Moore - the first comic Alan Moore has written and drawn for himself for over 20 years. Gardening, Cookery, DIY clothes, Women’s page. Contributions from Steve Moore, Dave Hamilton. The Daily Mustard. Spinning Doctors. Alan Moore on Anarchy.  3 different covers by Mitch Jenkins and Burlesque. 48 pages + 8 page local insert  and an 8 page comic insert .

£2.50

DODGEM LOGIC #2 by Alan Moore & Co. (Cover 3)

48 page magazine with 8-page comic insert. 297 x 210mm | ISBN 9780861661664

DODGEM LOGIC  We’ll show you The Life of the Mind Welcome to issue #2. We’ve got beautiful girls and strange old men ranting from soapboxes. We’ve got a freak show of Northampton curiosities. We’ve got FeeJee mermaids and the end of civilization. Right behind these lurid painted curtains, decorated by the best damn deadbeat paraffin-swigging Carny embellishers in the business. We’ve even got a free dirty comic book that we will be handing out behind the main tent after the performance. That’s how much we love you.  Dodgem Logic – touching hearts and minds, inappropriately. Comic strips by Steve Aylett, Savage Pencil, Kevin O’Neill and a free insert full colour 8 page A5 comic book ‘Weird Penises’ by Alan Moore - the first comic Alan Moore has written and drawn for himself for over 20 years. Gardening, Cookery, DIY clothes, Women’s page. Contributions from Steve Moore, Dave Hamilton. The Daily Mustard. Spinning Doctors. Alan Moore on Anarchy.  3 different covers by Mitch Jenkins and Burlesque. 48 pages + 8 page local insert  and an 8 page comic insert .

£2.50

DODGEM LOGIC #3 by Alan Moore & Co.

64 pages magazine + T-shirt transfer 297 x 210mm | ISBN 2043-7919

Issue #3 has a spine and more pages with a fantastic wraparound cover drawn by Alan Moore. While the popular primates that we promised you last issue have receded back into the mist, we've tried hard to alleviate your sense of cheated rage and disappointment by enlisting laugh-along Luddites-for-Literature supremo Robin Ince to smooth the gentle gradient of your furrowed brow. We also tracked down Josie Long through credit-card transactions in her brave but ultimately doomed Shawshank Redemption bid for freedom, so she’s back with us and doing what she likes best, if that’s being handcuffed to a radiator. As for the thick wedge of extra pages that you're paying through the nose for in this bumper issue, they contain a rare compendium of delights. We've got confessions of calamitous careers in the constabulary, step-by-step instructions for do-it-yourself diabolism and the rigorous recriminatory ruminations of a rogue town planner. We've got divine decadence and sultry San Francisco nights along with the exploits of troubled everyman Johnny Viable, some glamorous graffiti, and a tantalising T-shirt transfer from the crayon box of Dodgem Logic’s vendor of voluptuousness Melinda Gebbie. 64 pages + 8 page local insert and a free full colour T-shirt transfer by Melinda Gebbie.  

£3.50

DODGEM LOGIC #4 by Alan Moore & Co.

64 pages magazine + A2 Poster 297 x 210mm | ISBN 2043-7919-04

DODGEM LOGIC DECLARES “SUMMER OF LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME” Behind a fully loved-up hallucinogenic cover from modern psychedecadent maestro John Coulthart, Alan Moore’s subterranean soapbox reaches its fourth issue in a sunburst of mind-bending splendour. England’s only openly gay teacher speaks her mind in a delightfully delinquent diatribe, rib-tickling rationalist Robocop Robin Ince fixes upon another target while making inhuman computer noises inside his head. In keeping with this issue’s sun-fried freak-out theme, Deadhead Dick Foreman contributes a guided tour into the paisley undergrowth of psychedelic culture, while the magazine’s founder looks at America and its relationship with science fiction in an informed rant titled ‘Frankenstein’s Cadillac’. We present the next instalment of Melinda Gebbie’s dream-drenched San Franciscan flashback and are honoured to display, a delirious gallery of her electrifying etchings. Retro-Spankee Josh Ryan serves up an appreciation of children’s book author, ‘Sylvia’s Mother’ songwriter and Freaker’s Ball deviant Shel Silverstein, Alex Novak wheels out some more phonographic oddities adrift within their bell-jars so that we can squint and poke at them, while Margaret Killjoy charmingly continues her helpful advice for dealing with civilisation’s downfall without eating any of our neighbours. Kevin O’Neill offers us a sobering expose of trans-species pole dancing, we have a two-page Savage Pencil epic, and Steve Aylett turns out anxious-looking pigs until we're begging him to stop. Our Daily Mustard newshounds bring us stories ripped screaming from the world’s headlines. Dave Hamilton emits more soundings from the Eco Chamber, our guerrilla gardener Claire Ashby digs for victory and we have a full complement of Spinning Doctors, Great Hipsters, tongue-seducing recipes and do-it-yourself doo-dads to transform your otherwise probably bleak and colourless existences. Meanwhile, this issue’s locally-sourced and child-friendly free gift is a magnificently trippy A2 poster by Alan Moore and Joe Brown. On top of that we have Steve Moore lowering his flagon of absinthe for long enough to pen an eloquent paean to pacifism, the conclusion of Gary Mills’ searing sink-estate indictment and all the regular fun and foment of our eight-page local insert, Notes from Noho. 64 pages + 8 page local insert and a free full colour A2 poster .  

£3.50

DODGEM LOGIC #5 by Alan Moore & Co.

64 pages magazine 297 x 210mm | ISBN 2043-7919-05

Dodgem Logic Issue 5 is packed full of delicious art work , photography, poetry, short stories and usefulness. Featured this issue we have a section from poet Tom Pickard’s incredible autobiography ‘More Pricks Than Prizes’, plus Mitch Jenkins and Paul Chessell deliver 8 pages of prodigious photography and art work featuring our very own Spring Boroughs heroes. Barney Farmer and Lee Healey will pollute your minds with their sensational strips, whilst Melinda Gebbie discusses ‘old skool’ animation. John Black from the Alabama 3 offers up his musings on the notorious Jean Genet, and Alan Moore will have you in tears with his poetry [get your hankies ready, seriously!] comedian Robin Ince relates his recollections of the Edinburgh festival, and if that’s not enough we have our regular contributors to beguile and intrigue you. 64 pages + 8 page local insert.

£3.50

DODGEM LOGIC #6 by Alan Moore & Co.

72 pages magazine 297 x 210mm | ISBN 2043-7919-06

Now 72 pages Hoax will bend your mind with their sinister front cover and art work inside. Ian Sinclair graces our pages with his work 'Kiss The Rod'. Alan Moore challenges reality as we know it. Dick foreman gawps & cringes his way through a mouldering pile of 60s & 70s‘underground’ comics entitled 'Weirdoes'. Melinda Gebbie discusses her experiences of life as a bondage girl. Comedian’s comedian Stewart Lee offers an extract from his new book How I escaped my Certain Fate. Barney Farmer and Lee Healey from Viz deliver yet again a tremendous comic strip. Kevin O'Neill from The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen will blow you away with his artwork. Robin Ince delights us with his discourse. All our regular contributors and much more.

£3.50

DODGEM LOGIC #7 by Alan Moore & Co.

72 pages magazine 297 x 210mm | ISBN 2043-7919-07

Shampoo for our real friends, real poo for our sham friends. 'Cold Reading' story by Alan Moore, 'Making the Case for the Super Moby Dick of Space' by Stewart Lee, and Robin Ince, Orlando Harrison from The Alabama 3, Josie Long,  Melinda Gebbie,  Kristian Hammerstad's uncanny artwork, Savage Pencil and David Quantick explore more of Louis Wain's Cats, Barney Farmer and Lee Healey, a new hilarious letters page,  all our regular contributors and much more.

£3.50

DODGEM LOGIC #8 by Alan Moore & Co.

72 pages magazine 297 x 210mm | ISBN 2043-7919-08

Awesome artwork from Oscar Zarate and Kevin O'Neill - 'A Child's Christmas in the Blitz' as recounted by the legendary Michael Moorcock - A chronicle of 'Our Dodgem Days' by Alan Moore - 'Lord, Mr. Ford' the first chapter of Melinda Gebbie's memoir - 'Pretty as you Feel' by Dick Foreman, take a walk on the wild side! - Cartoon 'fun' by Barney Farmer and Lee Healey in 'Mal de Mail' - Professor Chutney's lecture on Women's Studies by Simon Munnery - plus all the regular contributors and lots more.

£3.50

FROM HELL by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

572 pages paperback with flaps 255 x 190mm | ISBN 9780861661411

This major graphic novel tells the story of Jack the Ripper, the most infamous serial murderer of all time. Although suggesting that the murderer was Dr. William Gull, Queen Victoria’s physician, covering up for her grandson Albert who had fathered a child by a prostitute. Moore says Jack’s identity is inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the fear “It’s about us. It’s about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysteria. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic” “Though technically a comic, it hardly begins to describe From Hell’s inimitable grandeur, as it takes the medium to fresh heights of ingenuity and craftsmanship”. Danny Graydon – Amazon “If a literate comic was once a novelty, Moore has moved the medium into the realms of academia with From Hell” S.F.Said – The Daily Telegraph “Moore’s writing is complemented by Campbell’s often staggeringly effective black &white renditions of stiff-backed Victorians swimming against the tides of history”. Richard Gehr – Village Voice “From Hell operates as a horror story, a conspiracy theory, a thesis on how the 1880s and the Ripper crimes bled into, the next 100 years of history and myth” Nick Hasted – The Guardian” “Alan Moore has written one of the most ambitious, formally innovative and densely researched works of historical fiction of recent years”. Kevin Jackson – The Independent  The Critics Prize – Angoulême Comics Salon. Best Graphic Novel - San Diego Comic Con Among many other prizes.

£24.99

FROM HELL Hardcover by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell

572 pages hardcover 260 x 195mm | ISBN 9780861661565

  Hardcover edition at a reduced price   This major graphic novel tells the story of Jack the Ripper, the most infamous serial murderer of all time. Although suggesting that the murderer was Dr. William Gull, Queen Victoria’s physician, covering up for her grandson Albert who had fathered a child by a prostitute. Moore says Jack’s identity is inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the fear “It’s about us. It’s about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysteria. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic”

£30.00

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Vol III: CENTURY 1910 by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill

80 pages paperback 260 x 170mm | ISBN 9780861661602

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century, is a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 72-page chapters - this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own current twenty-first century. Drawing from the fiction, theatre, film and television culture of the twentieth century as artfully as the preceding volumes drew upon the literature of the nineteenth, this first instalment of the League's adventures takes our familiar cast of characters … plus several previously unfamiliar … and propels them into a new age, Chapter one is set against a backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man upon the moon. With Halley's Comet passing overhead, the nation prepares for the coronation of King George V, and far away on his South Atlantic Island, the science-pirate Captain Nemo is dying. In the bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife. More than this, with its third volume the League's exploits move into a different realm of format, artistry and story-telling as this remarkable series sets out to explore the full limits of the vast fictional cosmos that it has marked as its territory. A unified field theory of fiction as much as a comic-book story, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Volume III): Century is sure to be like nothing you have ever read.    

£5.95

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Vol III: CENTURY 1969 by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill

80 pages paperback 260 x 170mm | ISBN 9780861661626

Century is a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 72-page chapters - this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own current twenty-first century. BOOK TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London's East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London's hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist.

£7.99

THE LOEG: BLACK DOSSIER Hardcover by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill

208 pages hardcover 265 x 180mm | ISBN 9780861661763

  England in the mid-1950's is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return in search of some answers — answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters — a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are hell-bent on retrieving the lost manuscript…and ending the League once and for all.   THE BLACK DOSSIER is an elaborately designed, cutting-edge volume that includes a "Tijuana Bible" insert and a 3-D section complete with glasses, as well as additional text pieces, maps, and several different paper stocks.

£20.00

THE LOEG: BLACK DOSSIER Paperback by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill

208 pages 260 x 170 mm | ISBN 9780861661770

England in the mid-1950's is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return in search of some answers — answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters — a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are hell-bent on retrieving the lost manuscript…and ending the League once and for all. THE BLACK DOSSIER is an elaborately designed, cutting-edge volume that includes a "Tijuana Bible" insert and a 3-D section complete with glasses, as well as additional text pieces, maps, and several different paper stocks.

£12.00